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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are so far into stupid territory now, I feel like I lose brain cells every time I open this thread.[/quote]

This is why they need to draw those boundaries now, so we can all stop wasting our time with this insanity.[/quote]

No, that just gives us two rounds of stupid on ASFS. Now and in two years when they refine it before Reed opens.[/quote]

That's why the entire boundary needs to be done for 2019.  No reason to extend the pain.  [/quote]

That will mean the boundaries to be implemented for 2021 will be based on projections that are three years out of date at that point. They have been very explicit on this, any boundaries drawn now for 2021 will be checked again in 2020 to make sure they are still appropriate at that time. Again with the stupid. [/quote]

Just because you keep saying it doesn't make it so.  You hear the echo chamber?  Sounds loud to me.

Projections are fairly stable.  They might make a couple planning unit refinements here and there for 2021 to ASFS, but the big change will be in 2019.[/quote]

Projections are fine, but they can't project what the decision will be on moving options schools, which politically they want to make the decision close to implementation time so less time for backpedaling.  They can decide in 2018 to move Key to Nottingham in 2021, but that's 3 years of gnashing teeth and matched t-shirts at every school board meeting.  If they just table No Arlington, MAYBE move a few southern ASFS boundary PUs to LB if Fleet gives it breathing room, that's all they can do until the final decision on option locations is set.[/quote]

Key isn't moving to Nottingham, APS already said the only program that would work at Nottingham is ATS. Immersion already struggles to attract enough spanish-speaking students, moving it away from spanish-speaking families will only make it worse. Putting ATS north of Lee Highway is just as shitty an idea because whether they put it at Nottingham or Tuckahoe there will be hundreds of families who could just as easily walk to ATS as to their neighborhood school, they will flood ATS with applications and UMC SA families can kiss it goodbye.[/quote]

YES!  I don’t understand why more people weren’t seeing this.  Moving ATS to any NW school would only lessen economic diversity.  You cannot increase diversity with the existing lottery system.  
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They aren't talking about moving an option school to the NW to increase diversity. It's because they done messed up and promised a neighborhood school at Reed after they just built Discovwry and they'll have too many seats all in one quadrant with overlapping walk zones and not enough seats in all the rest of the county. They want an option school somewhere up there so that they can even out enrollment, because they don't have the money to build another school for many years, and the boundaries they'd have to draw to make all schools equally full without an option school up there will be insane. I guess we'll get to see them. They'll probably look some some gerrymandered congressional district boundaries. They won't be "neighborhood" schools anymore anyway with the way they'll have to carve them up. [/quote]

You could fill Reed with the excess students at McKinley and a bunch of Ashlawn to make room for kids from south of 50. Boundaries for school north of Lee can largely stay the same, those school are all basically full already.[/quote]

Except, they are doing the S boundaries and schools separately from the N now, so how would that work? They can't use the S schools to shift things around to correct for the mistake they made in the NW unless it's all part of the same process, and now it's not going to be. They're just going to do small scale revisions around Fleet, because this larger process was delayed. That decision could box in whatever they hoped to do when they work on the area around Reed. It should've all been one process. Now the idea of any boundaries crossing 50 may not be possible. [/quote]

They’re not doing all of the south boundaries now, go look at the presentation. The only ones being done now are the SE boundaries, and a little in the zones surrounding that as needed to do those boundaries properly. The staff laid it out very carefully to preserve their location options. The SW schools are in the zone that may get small changes now but otherwise will be done for 2021.[/quote]

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